Today another one of my instructors left for the airlines. The guy I’d been flying with the last few weeks got hired at Republic and today was our last flight. We took the 172 up and tried holds and DME arcs in the air. It was pretty bumpy today, especially over the hills, and made for a fun ride! All in all, it wasn’t much different from the sim and was pretty easy stuff. The only surprise on the flight was the little knob on the throttle fell off when I reached to adjust the power a little. Shot the ILS for 25R at LVK and said our goodbyes. He commented on how well I was doing, and chatted a bit about his hours (something like 2.5k and 180 ME total) and said I was pretty close to meeting the minimums myself! Realistically, that’s a few years off, but it was nice to hear for the first time someone mention I was closer rather than farther from the ultimate goal. Now I need to find a new instructor. I met one of my old instructors at the flight school last week, he is flying the CRJ for Skywest now and is instructing at the school a couple days a week. I’m hoping I can work into his schedule and fly with him again, and hopefully hear a few stories about airline flying! I’ll have to wait at least a week until he’s back from a vacation, darn.

 Till next time..